Saturn 3
SATURN 3 (15)
D: Stanley Donen
ITC/Transcontinental (Stanley Donen)
UK 1980
87 mins
Science Fiction/Thriller
W: Martin Amis
DP: Billy Williams
Ed: Richard Marden
Mus: Elmer Bernstein
PD: Stuart Craig
Kirk Douglas (Adam), Farrah Fawcett (Alex), Harvey Keitel
(Benson), Ed Bishop (Harding)
A man & woman working on one of Saturn's moons have
their work interrupted by an interloper and his murderous 8-foot tall robot.
A huge mess of a film, put into production with an
inexperienced director who left the project halfway through filming. What remains is a shambles, clearly filmed in a department store, with poorly executed visual effects and laughably
unconvincing ADR sound dubbing, which was used to replace Harvey Keitel's Brooklyn accent with that of British actor Roy Dotrice.
Clearly greenlit to cash in on the previous year's Alien
(qv), perhaps the tagline for this should have been "in space, no one can hear you snore."
3/10
